Author has written 26 stories for Hetalia - Axis Powers. Why Meeting the Bosses can be slow to update. I choose the nations and bosses on a set of personal rules that mean it can take me a while to decide who the next nation and boss pair is. The rules are: The boss has to be iconic and/or transformational for the nation. I have to be able to at least respect the boss. I don't necessarily have to like them as a person, but I have to respect their achievements for their nation. The nation has to be canon with either enough visibility in the series for me to get a handle on their characterization or a distinct enough national identity that I can use that instead. I have to be able to find enough information about the transfer of government in the nation to get the details somewhere close to right (I won't get it completely right, but I try). The boss can't have met the nation beforehand, although seeing them around the official government bodies or knowing of their existence is okay. I have to know or be able to find out enough about the predecessor to characterize them as well as the boss. They have to interest me.Why A Brother's Choice can be slow to update. Now that A Brother's Choice has more or less caught up to current events, the story is waiting on two elements: the first is international events that impact Prussia and Germany; and the second is allowing the pain of those events to become a little less immediate where they're not good things. Yes, this does mean there will be reference to the Ukraine, the Paris terrorist attacks, and the Russia-Turkey hostilities (as well as other events as they emerge). I will treat them with respect, but I can guarantee I'll offend people with my treatment of them. Other multi-chapter stories Nothing I've started is dead. Some may be lying fallow for a long time. I work full time, I'm narcoleptic, and I'm diabetic. This means I don't have much bandwidth outside of work for anything. Other one-shots I will post occasional one-shots as the mood takes me, or when I've finished a kink-meme fill and think it would be a good fit here. The rest I don't do trigger warnings. Nobody has to read anything I write. I don't write offensive-for-the-sake-of-offensive, but if something strays into darker territory, I trust my readers to be adults about it and accept that the M rating means "Mature audiences". I usually don't write smut: I'm more interested in the characters than the horizontal gymnastics. If a kink meme request involves sex, I may write some but it will be part of the story. I don't do PWP. I don't care about ships. If a ship works for a story, it will happen. If not, it won't. I may or may not take suggestions depending on whether they appeal to me - but I appreciate that people enjoy my work enough to comment and make suggestions. |